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CHAPTER II PROVISIONS REGARDING FIXATION OF STANDARD RENT AND PERMITTED INCREASE

Section 9: No application for standard rent in certain circumstances

The Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Maharashtra, as on 7 March 2025; its footnotes record later changes to other Acts it cites, the latest being Mah. 24 of 2012.

A Maharashtra Rent Control (Amendment) Bill, 2025 (L. A. Bill No. LXXXII of 2025) was introduced in 2025; as of October 2026 no official record shows it passed or published as an Act, so it is not reflected in this text.

No court shall, upon an application or in any suit or proceedings, fix the standard rent of any premises under section 8, or entertain any plea that the rent or increases are excessive, if the standard rent or the permitted increase in respect of the same premises have been duly fixed by a competent court on the merits of the case, without any fraud or collusion or an error of the fact, and there has been no structural alternations or change in the amenities or in respect of any other factors which are relevant to the fixation of the standard rent, or change in such increases, thereafter in the premises.

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